Book Review – The Book of GIMP: A Complete Guide to Nearly Everything

GIMP is a graphics editor tool and there are not much resources available to learn it. The recently released The Book of GIMP by Olivier Lecarme and Karine Delvare provides a comprehensive coverage of GIMP in a consise style. Published by No Starch Publishing, the book is divided into 3 parts spread over 22 chapters.

The chapters in Part 1 examines GIMP basics, Photograph Retouching, Drawing, Illustration, Logos, Textures, Composite Photography, Animation and Image Preprocessing. The authors also provides coverage of the various tools used for designing a website including guides, snaps, grids,and layers.

Part 2 provides reference material for the following aspects associated with GIMP

The GIMP Interface

Display

Layers

Color

Selections

Masks

Drawing Tools

Transformation Tools

Filters

Animation Tools

Obtaining and Printing Images

Image Formats

Scripts and Plug-ins

Customizing GIMP

The Book of GIMP also includes several appendixes which provides a detailed coverage of Vision and Image Representation, Batch Processing in addition to several FAQs. The author also provided links to additional resources such as Tutorials, Communities, Blogs, Brushes, Plug-ins, Mailing Lists, IRC channels including information rlevant to graphics related tools and websites.

The authors have made a great attempt to provide comprehensive explanation along with plenty of screenshots in color.

I am sure that The Book of GIMP is a handy reference manual and the material covered will be very useful for beginners, media professionals and for all those who are involved in the usage of GIMP.

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Posted by Anand Narayanaswamy
on March 18, 2013. Filed under Articles.
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